The Charlie James Show analyzes consumerism, political ideology, and power.

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Full Transcript Charlie James: Most people just want to go about their day. Most people just want to get up, want to go to work, want to come home, spend time with their family, keep the yard nice, pay the mortgage, pay the insurance, pay their taxes, get up the next day, do it all over again. And they, for the most part, want to be left alone. And in doing all of that, there's another thing that they don't want: they don't really want to get involved. Coming up in just a a little bit, at the top of the next hour, I'm going to tell you about consumption. How we live in a consumption society, and I'm not talking about goods and services, I'm talking about ideology. Very interesting. But people just don't want to get involved. Meanwhile, in Columbia, in the Lowcountry, over in the Grand Strand, over in the Pee Dee, wherever you want to go here in South Carolina, and across the nation, there are people—and this I'm this is not hyperbole—there are people in rooms making decisions that do not have your best interest at heart. Oh, it has their best interest at heart, not yours. There is a neo-feudalism going on. All you got to do is look down in Columbia. The the the the RINOs in Columbia could care less about your feelings. They could care less about your concerns. They could care less. They're going to get out there and they're going to brag about all the jobs that they they brought in, but how many of those were actually South Carolina jobs? Very few. Very, very few. Meanwhile, they want to keep the primaries open so they can stay in power. Power is the most important thing to them. That's dangerous. That really is dangerous. We got some bad people running our governments. And I'm talking in every form of government, we got some bad people. Horrible people that will look you dead in the eye and lie to you, and it's easy to them. It's easy to lie. Oh my gosh, so it's almost refreshing to them when they look you in the face and they lie to you. They love it. They thrive on it. That's scary to me. That really is, because people will abandon their principles, if they ever had them, to gain power. So what happens when your political beliefs become more important than your principles? There's a new book out by Jamie Glazov. It's called United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas. Glazov grew up the son of Soviet dissidents; his family understood firsthand what happens when an ideology stops being an argument and becomes a belief system. And the argument is pretty straightforward: there are people who become so committed to their political ideology that they eventually start defending movements or governments or actions that contradict the values that they claim to have. We've seen that here recently. We saw We've seen that recently. It's unbelievable. In in in in this whole Darling Graham primary, we we saw people abandon their principles for their ideology. We saw lies told, easily told, and even worse, we saw lies believed. So this argument that Glazov makes is pretty straightforward. Again, there are people who become so committed to their ideology that they will abandon... they will start defending movements, governments, and actions that contradict the values that they claim to believe in. You can believe in freedom, but suddenly you're making excuses for an authoritarian regime because that regime hates the same people you hate? Oh, yeah. You claim to support democracy, but you're willing to excuse political violence because it's being committed against your political opponent? Yeah. You're willing to excuse You You You talk about how you hate lies, but yet you look the other way when lies are told about your political opponent? That's where politics stops being about principles and starts being about tribal warfare. This article, the book, focuses heavily on what Glazov sees as a recurring attraction on portions of the political left and some on the right towards revolutionary movements: comm ...

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